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" It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women. "

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" Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take. "

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" Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. "

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" There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges. "

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" A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. "

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" Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community. "

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" I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief. "

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" I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. "

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" If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. "

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" I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals. "

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" I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women. "

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" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "

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" The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification. "

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" When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. "

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" On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing. "

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" If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers. "

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" I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other. "

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" I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision. "

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" I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women. "

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" I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. "

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" Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. "

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" In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them. "

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" I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world. "

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" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "

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" Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like. "

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" I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed. "

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" My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. "

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" I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. "

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